Heating up Spring Grilling with scroll-stopping social ads

How TikTok Ads helped transform inspiration into sales.

Brand
OXO
Campaign Date
Apr 1 – Jul 6, 2025
Goals
Build brand awareness
Boost conversion and sales
Food on a grill

Challenge

In a crowded Spring Grilling season, OXO needed to stand out early on social like TikTok and reach shoppers beyond Walmart’s digital properties.

Campaign goals

Drive awareness

Increase units sold

Support grilling product sales

Solution

OXO joined Walmart’s Spring Grilling program, combining in-store, onsite and offsite media with TikTok ads to reach shoppers at key moments.

Strategy

Their strategy focused on showing up across touchpoints by combining in-store activations with onsite and offsite media and using TikTok in-feed video to help engage shoppers during key grilling moments.

Tactics

Social-first video creative

Video design showcased key grilling moments to help spark discovery and engagement in social environments where shoppers actively explore ideas.

Walmart first-party data

Audience targeting helped reach and connect with in-market grilling food buyers, kitchen tools and gadgets shoppers and recent outdoor grill purchasers.

TikTok’s native feed environment

Showing up in this native placement helped extend reach beyond Walmart’s site and app while keeping the omnichannel approach connected.

Big wins

TikTok campaign results

29 M+

Impressions

3.38 $

eCPM

2.52 $

Total ROAS

315 K

Video views

Source: Walmart first-party data, April 1–July 6, 2025. Past results do not guarantee future performance.

people at a BBQ

Key takeaways

Include the right tactic

Adding TikTok Ads to your omnichannel campaign strategy during seasonal retail moments can help reach shoppers at scale.

Develop engaging ads

With social-first video creative, advertisers can engage shoppers at moments where discovery and inspiration help influence purchase decisions.

Reach the right audience

Using Walmart first-party data on TikTok Ads helps advertisers serve ads to relevant shoppers in a high-traffic social environment.

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